ThatTruth777
Superstar
I can't decide 
What was the best era of African American music?
- Thread starter cole phelps
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The era Hip Hop sampled most is the best era. Every time I go back to the OG tracks that were sampled, I end up loving the original versions more.
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Miss Lewcee1
Rookie
70s-present is not an era
Don't include the garbage of today with the greats of the past
Yeah I was going to choose that one but how can we loop in Luther Vandross with Summer Walker?
R&B IN THE 70S UNDER THE 1960s-1970s MOTOWN/SOUL OPTION
YOU fukkING IDIOT.
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
Thought you were going to do decades...
90's...so 1970 to the present.
90's...so 1970 to the present.
Days of Future Piff
Superstar
One of the biggest things I miss about the 60s, 70s, and early 80s era was the musicianship. Those cats really knew how to write and play.
If we're keeping it a buck, most of the really good stuff from the 90s and beyond was really just sampled from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s.
Nobody's going to remember all these no-name mumble rappers in 10 years.
But Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Motown, Marvin Gaye, P-Funk, Minnie Riperton, Donny Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Zapp & Roger, and the Isley Brothers?
Now THAT'S timeless music right there
If we're keeping it a buck, most of the really good stuff from the 90s and beyond was really just sampled from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s.
Nobody's going to remember all these no-name mumble rappers in 10 years.
But Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Motown, Marvin Gaye, P-Funk, Minnie Riperton, Donny Hathaway, Chaka Khan, Zapp & Roger, and the Isley Brothers?
Now THAT'S timeless music right there
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cole phelps
Superstar
Nah bytch don't switch up now one minute you crying about: "HOW THE fukk DO YOU HAVE
R&B IN THE 70S UNDER THE 1960s-1970s MOTOWN/SOUL OPTION
YOU fukkING IDIOT.
70S TO THE 80S
BUT ALSO HAVE LATE 70S TO PRESENT?" Now you wanna change the subject cause I made your cry baby ass look stupid fukk outta my thread you autistic crack baby troll
Mid to late 20th century was probably the best run across genres. From a purely technical standpoint I'd say Jazz from like 1920s - 1970s was the peak of Black music because you had GOAT musical geniuses like Coltrane, Davis, Mingus, etc, etc. For entertaining performers (MJ, James Brown, Prince, etc) probably the 1960s-1990s. Best singers were 1940s-1990s.
Nah bytch don't switch up now one minute you crying about: "HOW THE fukk DO YOU HAVE
70S TO THE 80S
BUT ALSO HAVE LATE 70S TO PRESENT?" Now you wanna change the subject cause I made your cry baby ass look stupid fukk outta my thread you autistic crack baby troll
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FrontoBama
U Can’t Reach The Sun
1920-55ish jazz took hold of America in ways that I don’t even think Hip Hop has. There was a point when Jazz music was the soundtrack of everything America black or white. People would sit down for a eugenics meeting and then go watch a Duke Ellington show.
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cole phelps
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